Sunday, January 8, 2012

UGC NET will have Objective papers only

Come June 2012 the NET aspirants will see a change in the pattern of the UGC NET as UGC has decided to give away the Descriptive paper for Objective one in Paper III. So they can have a breadth of relaxation who fear to write it in several pages. But still some people points finger on the said decision of UGC. Myself being cleared the NET several times feel that descriptive type paper is better test although seeing the subjectivity of the examiner its not fair on the part of the other students whose copy went to those who are not so lenient in marking.

UGC’s
NET examination consists of three papers with papers I and II being
objection type and paper III being descriptive type, till date. Earlier
in June 2010, the structure of paper III of NET exam was revised into 2
essay questions, 3 analytical/evaluation questions, 9 definitional/short
answer questions and 5 text-based questions.

“The
commission discussed issues pertaining to objectivity in making of
paper III, transparency, reducing the inter and intra examiner
variability in marking of paper III, delay in declaration of NET results
and also recommendations of the NET moderation committee to change
paper III from descriptive to objective type on the pattern of Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research - NET examination,” UGC member said in an interview.

The UGC, which is the highest
decision making body for higher education in the country, has also
considered the issue of relaxation in marks for differently-abled
candidates in the NET examination and decided to reduce minimum
qualifying marks for them.

Now
differently-abled candidates have to get 35 marks in paper I and II
separately and 80 marks combining papers I and II combined and 80 marks
in paper III. Even though UGC’s decision has eased the pressure of the
student community, the academic community felt that only with
descriptive questions one can judge the candidate’s in-depth knowledge
of a subject.